Science Fraud: Darwin Stole Natural Selection Discovery from Patrick Matthew

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Prideaux John Selby

In the third edition of the Origin of Species Darwin (1861) wrote:

‘In 1831 Mr. Patrick Matthew published his work on 'Naval Timber and Arboriculture,' in which he gives precisely the same view on the origin of species as that (presently to be alluded to) propounded by Mr. Wallace and myself in the 'Linnean Journal,' and as that enlarged on in the present volume. Unfortunately the view was given by Mr. Matthew very briefly in scattered passages in an Appendix to a work on a different subject, so that it remained unnoticed until Mr. Matthew himself drew attention to it in the 'Gardener's Chronicle,' on April 7th, 1860.’

Nullius in Verba

The seventeenth century Latin motto of the Royal Society, nullius in verba, means ‘on the word of no one’, which informs us that when it comes to claims of fact that scientists should not credulously take somebody’s word for it that something is true.
Contrary to the Darwinist myth that nobody read it, with hi-tech research methods, I have discovered the hidden books in the library that prove Matthew's 1831 book was read and cited by at least seven naturalists before Darwin and Wallace each replicated the unique ideas within it. Three of those naturalists were in Darwin’s inner circle and one, Prideaux John Selby (1842) - in the very year Darwin wrote his first unpublished essay on natural selection - cited Matthew's book many times in his own book on trees and therein commented on his failure to understand Matthew's unique 'survival of the most circumstance suited' notion of power of occupancy.

Read some of the newly discovered evidence of Darwin's and Wallace's great science fraud on my BestThinking blog

Richard Dawkins is Spouting Spuriofacts about Patrick Matthew

Check out Dawkins video -  a link to it - here - is in the comments section of my blog - here - . It is amazing that a scientists who is critical of pseudo-scholarship should take such a clearly pseudo-scholarly approach in his own work!

Discovery of the World's Greatest Science Fraud

In 1859 Charles Darwin published The Origin of Species and therein referred to the theory of natural selection as

“my theory”.

In 1860 Patrick Matthew laid claim in the press to being the originator of the same theory, which he had earlier named 'the natural process of selection'. Darwin capitulated immediately, apologized and acknowledged that Matthew had fully published the entire concept 28 years earlier. Alfred Wallace, another who at the same time as Darwin claimed to have independently discovered Matthew’s prior discovery, agreed. However, both Darwin and Wallace claimed they had no prior knowledge of Matthew’s ideas and excused themselves by further claiming that no one had read them.

Seeing no further than the end of their namesake's pen, and ignoring the scientific principle of nullius in verba, Darwinists believe to this day that Darwin and Wallace independently discovered natural selection. My new book Nullius in Verba (forthcoming) busts every one of Darwin's 154 year old excuses for not having read Matthew's ideas and proves he created a supermyth based upon a number of fallacies, myths and lies coined by himself and Wallace and perpetuated by credulous Darwinists.

Visit the Patrick Matthew website for further details.